A Fax has become a symbol of a professional look to an office. A fax is considered to be legally valid proof in many instances. Though email and internet have taken the world by storm, email is not considered to be legally valid in many places, but a Fax is.

Fax Technology:

Faxing Technology gone through a long journey starting from the invention of Giovanni Caselli. Fax is a short form of Facscimile(a Latin word), which means sending a copy of a document over to a remote location.

A Fax is sent over the telephone network via electric signals with the help of a machine which can scan a document, encode it for sending it over through telephone network and decode it while receiving. So a Fax Machine needs to be a Scanner, Modem, Dialler and a Printer.

These faxes sent/received over the network using Fax Machines have a lot of disadvantages. They need paper, a telephone line, electricity etc., These are some reasons why Email and Internet Faxes have become very popular that they don't have such disadvantages. They can also be archived digitally and so they are easily manageable.

Email Fax:

One can create e-Mail accounts in Yahoo, Gmail, Hotmail or any other paid or free email providers and choose to receive the faxes to their email boxes.

How does it work?

Making e-Mail to/from Fax work for us is very simple.

• There are a lot of companies which host the Fax to Email or Email to Fax solutions. Each one offers different types of plans Individual, Prepaid, Corporate etc., with different pricing and service levels. Choose one among them.

• Be careful to choose the service in the country where we need to receive the faxes.

• It is assumed that you already have an email account, that is planned to be used for this fax service. If not, create one email account.

• Sign up with one Fax Service Provider, who will provide a Local (Some of them also Toll Free) Number

• Start sending/receiving faxes to and from emails.

The Fax Service Provider hosts a Fax server which always keeps listening for the incoming and outgoing faxes. In contrary to the old fax model where the fax machines at both send and receive ends to be on, here there is only one server which is on listening to thousands of Faxes. Neither the Sender nor the Receiver needs to keep a fax machine.

Also the Internet technology is growing by leaps and bounds which we can use and combine it for using many technologies like this.